My guest today is Joel Meadows, a phenomenal human who happens to be a permaculture teacher, rocket oven engineer, energy geek, green tech sceptic, sculptor, illustrator, musician and composting ninja.

This is one epic episode that encompasses:

🌟Are renewables really all that?

🌟Why we’re using more fossil fuels than ever *cry*.

🌟Smart phone free life.

🌟Being deliberately abnormal.

🌟ROCKET OVENS.

🌟Why everyone is practical + can learn shit.

🌟Three steps to household energy resilience.

We recorded this convo at Joel’s kitchen table, in his majestic solar passive strawbale home after gorging ourselves on a garden omelette and roasted wattleseeds.

I wrote about the experience in neurotic detail over on Substack and included masses of photos of Joel’s home + garden for your voyeuristic needs. Here it is.

🧙‍♀️LINKY POOS

[video] Joel’s intro to hot composting

[video] A little explanatory video about YIMBY

[website] YIMBY (note all the tasty resources including the 'Compost Conversation' articles published each week in the Midland Express)

[video] Joe’s Permaqueer talk on appropriate technology

[video] Take a virtual tour of Joel’s house

[eBook] Joel + Tim Barker’s Rocket Oven how-to book

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